Course Description

Description


Lecture Material

It is assumed that the following course material is being made available to students of SUNY at Buffalo for use in the courses offered by the Department of Computer Science.
They are meant for instructional use only.

Date

Topic

Reading material

Notes/comments

1/11

Introduction to CSE241: Policies and protocols

First day handout

 

1/13
History of computers; Number systems
History   Intro

1/13 Binary arithmetic BinaryArith
1/22 Addition and subtraction with r's complement + binary code (BCD, 2 out of 5, gray code, ASCII, error correcting codes

1/25 Notes on 2's complement arithmetic 2's complement
1/29 Boolean algebra BoolAlg
2/2-8 Logic gates: AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, invertor Chapter3 class exam and updates posted below
2/10 Synthesis of logic circuits: Hamming Code Single bit error corrector Exercise 3.35 
2/12 Karnaugh Map Simplication

2/15 Prime implicatnts, essential implicants; don't cares

2/22 Quinn-Mcluskey's simplication method

3/1-3/5
Design and Implementation of MSI circuits: full adder, carry lookaside adder, decoder
Chapter 5

3/8-3/14
Spring break


3/15
MSI circuit: Encoder, Multiplexer (MUX)
Chapter 5

3/22MSI programmable devices (PROM and PLA)Chapter 5
3/24
Exam 2
Chapter 4

3/26,29.31Basic FFs and CountersChapter 6checkout this link
4/2Synthesis of mod-k countersChapter 6
4/12Analysis of clocked sequential circuitsChapter 7
4/14No lecture: work on hwk 9,10I am at Hutch Tech
4/16Synthesis of a coin counter (dollar from quarters)  
4/18Review  for exam 3 Review 
4/20Introduction to assembly language; more review  
4/22Introduction to VHDL; more review Verilog 



Homework:


Hoemwork#, Chapter
Due date
Topic
1: Chapter 2
1/29
Number Systems
2. Chapter 2
2/5
Binary arithmetic and codes
3: Chapter 3
2/12
Boolean Algebra
4: Chapter 3
2/19
Logic gates
5: Chapter 4
2/26
Karnaugh map simplification
6: Chapter 4 3/5 Quinn-Mcluskey's
7: Chapter 4
3/22
Practice for Exam 1
8: Chapter 54/5MSI combinational circuit chips
9: Chapter 64/16Designing with Flip-flops
10: Chapter 74/21Analysis of sequential circuits

Exam 1 2/24/2010 Chapter 1-3, hwk 1-4
Exam 2 3/24/2010 Chapter 4, hwks 5-7
Exam 3 4/26/2010 Chapter 5-7, hwks 8-10

Graduate Teaching Assistant:  Anh Le (anhle@buffalo.edu): Office hours:  Thu: 2.00- 3.50pm, Fri: 3.00-3.50pm, 329 Bell Hall

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant:  Mohit Bansal (mbansal2@buffalo.edu):